After watching the first case of the online drama version of "Detective Chinatown 2" "Angel's Melody", my personal impression is three and a half stars (five-star system), relatively modest, with no surprises and surprises, and it is not particularly difficult to swallow.
The local texture of the audio-visual language is even slightly more thoughtful than the painting style of "the world is full of nonsense as a joke" in the third part of the film version.
The following content briefly talks about the first four episodes.
First, the dual ambiguity of the psychiatric hospital module, the sense of atmosphere and substance
The play uses a very classic mental hospital-style ultimate torture: between "being crazy" and "crazy", how should we prove ourselves?
Lin Mo, the male protagonist played by Qiu Ze, pretended to be crazy for the detective and entered the madhouse with a fake mental illness certificate, but was subjected to "real madman treatment" such as electric shocks.
Foucault talks about "madness distorted, revealed, and judged by reason" in "Madness and Civilization", madness before the Renaissance was seen as a symbol of some kind of "mystical knowledge", while madness in the classical period was confined and interpreted as false; Until the modern psychiatric hospital, madness fell into aphasia.
It is also common for various film and television dramas to use the madhouse as the background of "horror and suspense", and the first case of "Tang Detective 2" is relatively regular.
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Before the first two episodes revealed the truth of "in the name of a madhouse and the fact of organ trafficking", a lot of startled dubbing and suspicious camera language were relied onRender the suspenseful and thriller atmosphere of the story
In other words, there are not many dry goods in the first two episodes that are really hardcore, and they focus more on the horror coat atmosphere rendering of "Madhouse Studies".
If you like this number, you may be able to indulge in it; If you don't like it, you feel itThe gesture is greater than the substance.
The rhythm of the storytelling, the dry goods of the content bridge, the ratio of reasoning and atmosphere, etc., may all be debatable.
Of course, this can also be a stylistic choice, choosing to emphasize the sense of atmosphere and cover up through audiovisual languageRelative thinness at the text level.
In the first two episodes, for example, Lin Mo judged that the deceased was not a suicide through the rope, and the smell of Xiao ** was still a male nurse. After that, Lin Mo found that the corpse lacked organs, deduced a human organ trafficking industry chain, and locked down the relevant personnel with the help of his teammates.
The "Puzzle Game" section is a little flat, but certainly not particularly embarrassing and boring.
This case reveals the big boss behind the scenes, and the doctor is actually a patient.
He suffers from a family hereditary mental illness, has a serious paranoia, regards the psychiatric hospital as his kingdom, and treats all kinds of poor patients as his own killing tools.
himSober enjoymentThis joy of manipulating and even enslaving others.
But the setting of "he's sick" makes the emotional color of the story somewhat ambiguous: why did he do these things in a frenzy? Half because he was sick he was hurt (or he fantasized about being killed), half because he enjoyed sin.
The pathological properties of the first half are a kind of mechanical obstacle to humanistic criticism in the second half
It's like, going around in a big circle, going around to the end, "Why did he kill people?" Because he is mentally ill".
In the tragic past of the eldest son, the play tries to ask the question "Is it because it is mentally ill", and the ending gives a parallel answer, for the mentally ill with intermittent onset, committing crimes while awakeThe same has to bear the legal consequences.
fromPunishmentPenaltyAngleSay, the play answers the above question.
However, from the perspective of human heart and human nature, it is still slightly ambiguous in the origin of "evil".
Two, he who gazes into the abyss becomes the abyss
In the case of "Melody of Angels", except for the big boss who started it, the people who were coerced had their own tragic and desolate past.
The old man with the value of force max, once a glorious boxer, retired with an injury, played black boxing at an age, was sad and desolate and faked and beaten, couldn't bear to look at the desolate eyes of the little granddaughter, got up angrily and fought happily, the ending was that the family members except the little granddaughter, were all killed by the owner of the black boxing stadium, and then he went crazy all night.
A girl named Sakura was bullied by her stepfather after her mother's death (her mother was also killed), and she was thrown into an isolated mental hospital instead, where she was given the universal mantra of "she's crazy so it's useless to say anything". In order to escape for revenge, he did not hesitate to become a tool for killing.
The old man and the girl, one is "crazy" to escape the world in great pain, and the other is struggling to survive in anger and begging for revenge.
Xiong Dailin's **Chang Pengxi, who was the bitter master of a ** incident many years ago.
The young son died innocently, ** killed seven people in a row, but he did not have to bear criminal responsibility because he was mentally ill. When her mother's resentment was like a sea and hatred, she was transferred to a psychiatric hospital and began to seek an opportunity to vent her anger and lynching.
One thought is bitter and hateful, and the rest of his life will be desolate from now on.
The old man and Sakura were used and manipulated as ** tricks and directly participated in the killing;
Pency's level of knowledge and involvement doesn't seem to be so deep.
But it is still in the big dye vat, from the victim, from the bitter master to the ** in a broad sense.
Retribution for injustice, all living beings suffer;
Demons enjoy the pleasure of manipulating the lives of others, fooling the poor and throwing them deeper into the abyss.
At the end of the second part of the film version of "Tang Detective", a sentence was thrown, "Those who gaze into the abyss become the abyss" (to the effect), and the boy who slays the dragon becomes an evil dragon; In the online drama version of "Tang Detective 2", the old man, Sakura and even Peng Xi all have a bit of desolation of "people who long for justice, but can't go astray after asking for it".
Sakura fell from the stairs with blood, and the accident during the fight was arranged quite mechanically.
This is obviously a mechanical accident for the characters to "atone for their sins with death". Next to a pool of blood was a book that was often interrupted, a different life she didn't have.
The ending of death concocted by mechanical means is also narrated to emphasize the "bleak" blood color under the superficial attribute of the character's "sin".
There is nothing wrong with the creative ideas of several characters, but the scenes are very conventional, and the progress bar is slightly flat, and it is difficult to form a really strong impact.
When Xiong Dailin cried, there was almost no sense of substitution. On the contrary, the old man was knocked to the ground, the direct injury of his limbs, the frightened and disappointed eyes of the young children, and the old and the young made people feel embarrassed and unbearable.
The ** that the old man took out at the beginning echoed after the follow-up past was revealed, and the two heads that were cut off corresponded to the two deceased relatives, and the living granddaughter became himThe weakness of being blackmailed.
The "laughter" when he is crazy and the bleak "pain point" of blood under normal logic are combined quite neatly.
People who have been blinded by hatred or pain, who are bent on going their own way and infinitely paranoid, have long since turned back and have no body behind them.
Soberness may be endless torture, and madness may be carnival relief from sin.
Is it madness or sobriety, drunkenness or despair? Who can really tell.
Three, the small universe
What I like to deal with in the play is the criminal entity ** written by this controller, the moment when it was put on the fire by Lin Mo and pressed by the restaurant waiter, it was not very ceremonial "burned", and there was no sighing and melancholy gaze at the flames, but replaced by the daily, nonsensical and allegorical contempt of "It's not important, it's just a bullshit firewood".
The small universe is online, and people from all walks of life appear.
Wang Baoqiang belongs to the tool-type introduction, and Kuntai played by Xiao Yang is swaggering, greasy and greasy as a laughing point.
In the Tang Detective universe and the "Manslaughter" series next door, he has appeared too many times and has different roles, although he acted very well, but I really can't remember if he is online, "Is the first part of this role Chen He coming"?
Qiu Ze's performance is as stable as ever, but in this film, the few who will solve the case with her in the future, except for Kiko, who has a cooler pre-role personality description, several of them seem to be quite tooly.
There are obvious functional characteristics, but the character is ambiguous.
Although the femme fatale and sassy big woman in "Disappearing Her" were accused of being "very stereotypical", after all, the characteristics are clear, and the first case of the online drama is a bit "appearing for the sake of appearing".
On the contrary, Zhang Junning, who only appeared in flashbacks in the first few episodes, has a stronger sense of existence.
Tony Jia has a strong "laugh" feature, but the laugh is a bit flat and a little embarrassing.
Of course, Tang Tan can build a small universe, which has its own contributions and advantages; Looking forward to the follow-up Tang Tan's wings, while maintaining the working chain, it can also be more high-quality. Above.